Ancient Places, A Custom Search Engine

Find information on places of Historic, Ecological or Spiritual importance
within Dorset Wiltshire and Hampshire

Enter your search term in the box or just click on one of the popular name tags in the "buzz cloud" here for a quick search
Hengistbury Head Stanpit Marsh Christchurch Keep Christchurch Castle Highcliffe Castle Hurst Castle
Winchester Cathedral Stonehenge Badbury Rings Corfe Castle Christchurch Priory Avebury
Maiden Castle Maumbury Rings Dorset Smuggling Durdle Door Christchurch Harbour ferries Steamer Point
Google Custom Search

Index of additional locally hosted pages

Here is some extra information and pictures on the following places,
Click on name to access page

If you would like to add your site or would like to recommend a site
please email me with its URL at newsite@ancientplaces.co.uk.

If you find one of the indexed sites here that is broken or inappropriate,
email the URL to me at badsite@ancientplaces.co.uk

A list of the sites searched by this engine can be found here

Welcome to Ancient Places.

This website has been a bit of a chameleon. It has now changed from a set of personal impressions of places in Dorset, such as Hengistbury Head and Christchurch Castle to a customised search engine based on Google technology. It is now targeted at indexing websites that have a particular relevence to places of historical, ecological or religious significance in the the three counties of Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.

When I started out with my personal impressions I soon realised that I could not hope to provide a single website that encompassed even a smattering of these special sites in one county, let alone in the whole of Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.

I also know that there is a lot of really good information out there but, with a standard search engine, a great deal of it gets buried under a mountain of irrelevent clutter. The purpose of this site is now to remove the clutter and allow the user to focus in on the information related to these special places.

I hope it works for you.

Just to keep the original ethos of this site alive, it also hosts a number of pages on places I find particularly worthwhile and hopefully, as I get time, this list will grow.

Currently there are pages on:

Hengistbury Head       ( Note: this is not The Hengistbury Head website but a more personal page )

Christchurch Castle and the Norman Constables Keep

Stonehenge

Christchurch Priory

I will also be adding to the selected sites indexed here as well as I come across good sites.

The "buzz cloud" of search terms above the search box will perform a search with the minimum of fuss, while using the search box operates in exactly the same way as a standard Google search. Of course, if you try an off-topic search, you will not get much!
kind regards
Bill